The first Payton Sayings!

School/Class Update: So lately school has been going awesome. Kade is not crying at all anymore and he is genuinely happy to go to school and see his teachers. He still asks me to "smash snow in the truck" along the way but that is getting hard as it is rapidly melting these days. The new twist in the story is that we enrolled Kade in a new class this week. He had his first dance class today (companion class to his gymnastics class - Rolie Polies) and these are the "no mommy" type of class. So naturally we were a little nervous about the separation. Well, Jen took him and he never looked back. He marched right into class, didn't cry when Jen left and apparently did very well listening to his teacher. Looking like he might just be getting over that separation anxiety after all...

Payton Sayings: Much to the chagrin of Jen, it is official (still a little rough but definitely there) ...Payton is saying "da-da" first! Payton also loves to put her hand up to her ear and pretend like she is talking on the phone. She usually does this when one of us is on the phone and she just blabs along with us. Its too cute...and mildly disturbing that she is already a phone gabber...hopefully by the time she is racking up huge mins on the phone...service will basically be free.

Kade Sayings: These are starting to pick up in frequency ;-)

• "Why, Why, Why"....yes it has officially started.
• The other night we all loaded up into the car and drove over to see a close family friend who is in the hospital. Along the way Kade asked me why the road was so bumpy. As usual it came in the form of a couple dozen "why" questions, but in the end I ended up explaining to him that the elements (water, sun), the weight of vehicles on the road and the freezing/expanding soil all worked together to buckle the road. And there there was silence ;-) As I sat there basking in my moment of triumph over a 3 year old...the silence was suddenly broken. Kade just said "So what you mean is that the road is bumpy"....I guess he got the last word after all.
• Lately Kade has been doing more than a few boneheaded things around la casa. Unfortunately for Jen and I, it is often hard to really punish him with a straight face as he has also gotten into the habit ofimmediately saying "Oh, I screwed up" with a little twisted face.